Hi guys,
Thanks for taking the time to read this. We have a 2TB external hard drive and over the past couple years it's become almost full. Recently, one of the folders that contains over half of our data is showing up empty when we try to open it, although the HDD properties says the data is still there. Any attempts to copy stuff into and out of the drive from the others folders progress really, really slowly.
So, we run chkdsk through cmd.exe and we have it scan the entire drive. This fixes the problem and we get all of our files back, but only temporarily. The next time we plug in the HDD, the same thing happens.
The general response we've gotten from others is that the HDD might be failing. This is really a problem for us because it's got several years worth of files on it, and we don't even have enough space on any of our computers to back up all the files.
Any ideas of what might be the issue, or how to fix it? The HDD is about 2 years old.
Thanks for taking the time to read this. We have a 2TB external hard drive and over the past couple years it's become almost full. Recently, one of the folders that contains over half of our data is showing up empty when we try to open it, although the HDD properties says the data is still there. Any attempts to copy stuff into and out of the drive from the others folders progress really, really slowly.
So, we run chkdsk through cmd.exe and we have it scan the entire drive. This fixes the problem and we get all of our files back, but only temporarily. The next time we plug in the HDD, the same thing happens.
The general response we've gotten from others is that the HDD might be failing. This is really a problem for us because it's got several years worth of files on it, and we don't even have enough space on any of our computers to back up all the files.
Any ideas of what might be the issue, or how to fix it? The HDD is about 2 years old.
